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Girls' Trip

Alaimo, Carly
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Girls’ Trip is a collection of eleven short stories about reality TV, pop culture and entertainment. The stories blend fabulist storytelling and realism to comment on the exchange of viewer/entertainer intimacy, conflict as currency, voyeurism, and the price of staying relevant in the entertainment industry. Other themes include: motherhood, obsession, family trauma, substance abuse, and female friendship. Throughout the collection, characters showcase the most unpleasant parts of themselves (authentic and contrived) on camera to satisfy an audience, please a network and preserve their fame. Girls’ Trip aims to investigate these characters’ motivations, thoughts, fears, and imagines the outlandish futures of reality stardom several generations down the line.

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2022-12-14
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Fiction, Pop culture, Reality television
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Alaimo, Carly. "Girls' Trip." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2022. https://doi.org/10.57709/32601264.
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2099-12-06
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